Runner should include "gh" tool

[docwhat]

The runner in GitHub Actions has gh by default and some actions depend on that being there.

[catthehacker]

I'm not aware of any such actions

[docwhat]

My action uses gh to trigger another build.

I can't find the action I got the idea from in the marketplace. If I find it, I'll add it here.

[catthehacker]

That just seems like a laziness to not use jq + curl There is ~10k actions available on GitHub, I can't satisfy everyone's needs. If you need gh, full-latest/full-20.04/full-18.04 has that.

Until I finish working on an image that will be balanced between act-* and full-*, it will not be added. You can also checkout https://github.com/jhchabran/docker_images/pkgs/container/ubuntu https://github.com/jhchabran/docker_images/pull/1

[docwhat]

Fair enough.

Is there any way to see what the official runners are installing? I mean, I guess I could write an action to tar everything up and send it to me...

[catthehacker]

Is there any way to see what the official runners are installing? I mean, I guess I could write an action to tar everything up and send it to me...

I don't think you would want 60GB tar file... https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-README.md https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu1804-README.md

[docwhat]

Wow! Okay, yeah... no. Never mind that thought.

[catthehacker]

I'll leave issue open since I'm going to make better image (bigger than act-*, smaller than full-*) but will it be tomorrow, will it be in few months, who knows. I'm currently on training till end of the week, so not much time to work on that but I'll try to polish what I've written already (oh my lord, it was 2 months ago).

[catthehacker]

custom images available which include gh + more ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-latest ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-20.04

[Manouchehri]

Is there any way to see what the official runners are installing? I mean, I guess I could write an action to tar everything up and send it to me...

I don't think you would want 60GB tar file... https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu2004-README.md https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/blob/main/images/linux/Ubuntu1804-README.md

Is there download links for Microsoft/GitHub's official tar files? (I know it's possible to use Packer on Azure myself, just kinda annoying.)

[catthehacker]

Is there download links for Microsoft/GitHub's official tar files?

tar files of images?

[Manouchehri]

Is there download links for Microsoft/GitHub's official tar files?

tar files of images?

Er sorry, meant to say VHD (or similar).

[catthehacker]

No, runner images are not published anywhere

[tlevesque-ueat]

custom images available which include gh + more ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-latest ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-20.04

Are these images still available somewhere? I'm getting a "manifest unknown" error

[udovichenko]

I also didn't find those particular tags, but found others like ubuntu:custom-22.04-20230201 or ubuntu:custom-latest-20230201. However, the gh command is still unavailable on these images. As far as I understand, this is because this PR has not been merged yet. @catthehacker, am I correct? Are there any medium-sized images that have gh onboard at the moment?

[ChristopherHX]

catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-latest now contains gh.

Also a smaller just base image + gh tool is now available catthehacker/ubuntu:gh-latest

[karfau]

Just for your information

catthehacker/ubuntu:custom-latest now contains gh.

is > 1.5 GB

Also a smaller just base image + gh tool is now available catthehacker/ubuntu:gh-latest

but doesn't have basics like curl...

Would be nice to configure something like https://docs.pkgx.sh/run-anywhere/docker in those images that makes it easy and straight forward to install those tools on demand...

[catthehacker]

We could probably put homebrew inside, since they implemented API based package index as opposed to having whole repository cloned

[karfau]

I updated my comment to point to pkgx, this makes it really simple. (see link above) Since curl is already part of ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:act-22.04 ti should be straight forward to add that to the mix?

Update: but pkgx is not part of the ubuntu github runners so far, so before being able to use it in workflows we would anyways need to install it (using curl) so I don't think it really is something people would expect to be present...

[ChristopherHX]

Missing curl is probably a defect in the current image version. Due to renaming a folder in upstream repo. It should reappear pretty soon.

but doesn't have basics like curl...

docker run catthehacker/ubuntu:gh-latest curl --version
Unable to find image 'catthehacker/ubuntu:gh-latest' locally
gh-latest: Pulling from catthehacker/ubuntu
316b101e2624: Pull complete 
bda9475457ac: Pull complete 
bdcf0832f61e: Pull complete 
fedf8591fe4c: Pull complete 
6b87279b87d2: Pull complete 
4ca545ee6d5d: Pull complete 
b4c629793e66: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:5abfbef0453bbc77c84e2a59a4c878fb4676a50e25d273c630b00b494cc4471a
Status: Downloaded newer image for catthehacker/ubuntu:gh-latest
curl 7.81.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.81.0 OpenSSL/3.0.2 zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9 zstd/1.4.8 libidn2/2.3.2 libpsl/0.21.0 (+libidn2/2.3.2) libssh/0.9.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.43.0 librtmp/2.3 OpenLDAP/2.5.16
Release-Date: 2022-01-05
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ldap ldaps mqtt pop3 pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smb smbs smtp smtps telnet tftp 
Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS brotli GSS-API HSTS HTTP2 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Kerberos Largefile libz NTLM NTLM_WB PSL SPNEGO SSL TLS-SRP UnixSockets zstd

Cannot see that curl is missing